LS Property Partners LLC

LS Property Partners LLC LS Property Partners LLC is the premier real estate investment and income tax management advisor.

I AM GOING TO BE AN AUTHOR 3 TIMES OVER IN 2024…I have been writing and posting articles on Facebook and LinkedIn for ab...
01/06/2024

I AM GOING TO BE AN AUTHOR 3 TIMES OVER IN 2024…

I have been writing and posting articles on Facebook and LinkedIn for about 4 years now. At the beginning it was 7 days a week. Then I had a revelation and got smart and made it only on normal workdays. I have accumulated about 400 articles or more and I am now working with Betty Withrow and Greg Dixon and their company, Shared Visions Publishing, on a set of books that will be spread out among 3 volumes this year. I will continue writing articles as long as I am active in Real Estate so there could be 2 more books a year into the future.

The books will deal with investing in real estate and especially in the areas of Multifamily Housing, Self-Storage Facilities, NNN Leases, The different economies around the United States and most of the different real estate investments. I will also add creating the perfect real estate investment portfolio that will give you cash flow, appreciation, and income tax benefits. Having been a practicing Certified Public Accountant for over 50 years, I will write a lot about the wonderful income tax advantages of investing in real estate both when buying and selling investment real estate, and the difference between a real estate investor and a real estate professional. I can talk about Cost Segregation Studies, Bonus Depreciation, and Net operating Loss Carryforwards. And, I have some interesting war stories and each one is entertaining and has a real point!

There is a website that we have already set up and it is “thebibleofrealestate.info” for you to see more about this project and for you to sign up for future articles and information.

This is a labor of love for me. I truly love what I do and, with my partner, Fred Sams, we do things under our company, “LS Property Partners LLC”, and we provide real estate and income tax planning, deferral of substantial amounts of income taxes allowing you to either qualify for a loan that you would not, or may not, have qualified for before, purchasing a bigger piece of property or purchasing that lot next door and that fits best when buying or building self-storage facilities. When I talk about deferring income taxes through doing a Cost Segregation Study I am talking about a substantial amount, tens of thousands of dollars for a very, VERY long time. We are associated with a Cost Seg Company by the name of CSSI. They are the biggest and the best when it comes to doing Cost Segregation Studies!!!

My name is Paul Levine, and I am a Commercial Realtor, a Real Estate Advisor, an Investment Advisor, an Income Tax Consultant, and a Residential Realtor of luxury homes in Southern California!!! I was also a University Professor for 6 ½ years. So, my desire is also to teach ou something and I am also hoping to learn something from you, my audience!!! You can call me at (818) 298 – 4000 after 10 AM Pacific Time Monday through Friday and, yes, even on the weekends. Or you can send an email to me at [email protected] and I will always try and answer you in a timely manner.

Remember, that website is,

THEBIBLEOFREALESTATE.INFO

PAUL LEVINECommercial RealtorReal Estate AdvisorInvestment AdvisorIncome Tax ConsultantResidential Realtor of Luxury Hom...
01/05/2024

PAUL LEVINE

Commercial Realtor
Real Estate Advisor
Investment Advisor
Income Tax Consultant
Residential Realtor of Luxury Homes in Southern California

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS...

I can speak on investing in real estate and especially in the areas of Multifamily Housing, Self-Storage Facilities, NNN Leases, The different economies around the United States and most of the different real estate investments. I can also speak about creating the perfect real estate investment portfolio that will give you cash flow, appreciation, and income tax benefits. I also speak about the wonderful income tax advantages of investing in real estate both when buying and selling investment real estate, and the difference between a real estate investor and a real estate professional. I can talk about Cost Segregation Studies, Bonus Depreciation, and Net operating Loss Carryforwards. And, I have some interesting war stories and each one is entertaining and has a real point!

Remember that I was a practicing Certified Public Accountant for over 50 years and a University Professor for 6 1/2 years before getting into real estate. I don’t think that there are any other Commercial Realtors out there with my years of diversified accounting, tax, and teaching experience. I am soooo comfortable in front of a group of any size and I also make sure that I get the audience involved and that makes for a much livelier presentation. I engage the audience and that means that they get more involved, and they learn more. I do not do my talks from notes, it’s all off the cuff, but I will cover the agreed upon curriculum. I also love the Question-and-Answer session, I have a lot of fun with that!!! I do my speaking engagements as I did my classroom.

I know that I am not being modest here, but I AM that good and the audience gets what they came for. I had 6 ½ years in front of 30 Accounting students and my classes NEVER came in second in department wide tests. And I enjoy it so much that we ALL get something out of it. If you are someone who engages speakers for a group or if you are someone in a group who thinks that I would be an asset speaking, then please contact me.

I speak to groups of Real Estate Investors, people who want to be Real Estate Investors, Certified Public Accountants, Real Estate Attorneys, Residential and Commercial Brokers and Realtors, Commercial Lenders and anyone else who has an interest or has a desire to be a Real Estate Investor.

My name is Paul Levine, and I am a Commercial Realtor, a Real Estate Advisor, an Investment Advisor, an Income Tax Consultant, and a Residential Realtor of luxury homes in Southern California!!! You can call me at (818) 298 – 4000 after 10 AM Pacific Time Monday through Friday and, yes, even on the weekends. Or you can send an email to me at [email protected] and I will always try and answer you in a timely manner.

I CAN’T BELIEVE IT; YA KNOW, I JUST CAN’T BELIEVE IT!!!I opened my Yahoo Mail this morning, I guess about 4 AM.  I could...
01/05/2024

I CAN’T BELIEVE IT; YA KNOW, I JUST CAN’T BELIEVE IT!!!

I opened my Yahoo Mail this morning, I guess about 4 AM. I couldn’t sleep because of back pain, so I got up, took some meds and looked at my emails and waited for the meds to take effect. There was an advertisement for a listing that blew me away!!! It was a single-family residence in Tustin, California that had 2 bedrooms and one bath and it was all of 820 square feet. Remember that I said 820 SQUARE FEET!!!

I moved to the greater Los Angeles area in 1969 and bought my first house in Northridge in 1972. It was a nice little house with 3 bedrooms and about 1,400 square feet with an incredible view of the San Fernando Valley. We paid $42,000 for the house and it is worth just shy of $1 million today. Well, we all know what prices in Southern California have done and I am not surprised at this number.

When we bought that house, the city just North of us was, and still is, Chatsworth and that was considered the dregs. I have a friend and client who bought a brand new house in Chatsworth a couple of years ago for over $2 million. But the house is HUGE and Chatsworth is going through a transition. You see, the whole San Fernando Valley is changing and, like the rest of Southern California, is getting a lot more expensive. But “a lot more expensive” has its limits.

The city of Tustin is in Orange County, and it is a nice city but absolutely, not the class of Orange County! Anyway, the advertisement was for a house of, as I said, 2 bedrooms and 1 bath and it is 820 square feet and the price, I am waiting for a drumroll, is $799,900. They are listing the house for $800K and I can’t believe it, I just can’t believe it!!! That’s almost $1,000 per square foot. I know that things, home prices, are crazy, but this is ridiculous. Remember, the house I bought in 1972 was about $30 per square foot.

I just realized what I wrote, and I started to chuckle. And you wonder why the rest of the country laughs at us and thinks that we are playing with Monopoly Money!!!

My name is Paul Levine, and you can call me at (818) 298 – 4000 after 10 AM Pacific Time Monday through Friday, and yes, even on the weekends. Or you can send an email to me at “[email protected]” and I will always try to answer you in a timely manner. I am the Managing Member of LS PROPERTY PARTNERS LLC and, with my partner, Fred Sams, we can help you make it through the complicated issue of Income Taxes like no one else can and, with our years of experience, we can help you make the right decision!!! We can help you defer tens of thousands of dollars in income taxes that will drastically change your cash flow allowing you to qualify for a loan, pick up the adjoining piece of property for future expansion, do some major refurbishing of the purchased property and even take a wonderful, romantic trip with the one you love!!!!!

HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEKEND AND GO 49ERS!!!

Investing in real estate is a marathon, not a sprint…     THE END...My main argument with this article is that the advic...
01/04/2024

Investing in real estate is a marathon, not a sprint… THE END...

My main argument with this article is that the advice is all backward. The author is telling you to start out by buying and fixing the property and then taking the proceeds and putting it in a syndication. As you make each of these investments you should be learning more and more about investing in real estate but also how YOU want to manage the properties. For the amount of money that you are investing in years 3 through 5 or 7 you should buy one or two apartment buildings and make the financial and rental decisions yourself. Don’t leave the management and the decision making to someone else.

Also, I can get you some really nice Income Tax Benefits that will defer a whole lot of income taxes for years and years. The syndication doesn’t necessarily pass those income tax benefits to you. Now do they. Just think, the syndicators take what they want off of the top and you are left with the residual. Is that the way you want to make and manage your investments?

Remember that when you invest in syndication the General Partners or Managing Members are taking a piece, a big piece, of the pie in cash flow and in the gain on the sale of the property. Buying an apartment building, a small to medium sized apartment building, isn’t that much of a task to manage and think how much money you will save and how much more you will learn and earn!!!

As a Certified Public Accountant for over 50 years, I worked one on one with many different entrepreneurs running their businesses and some of those businesses were real estate related. All of these businesspeople made their own decisions. The expression is that it is lonely at the top! IT REALLY IS!!! You can ask the experts who you hire for advice, but the final decision is YOURS and only YOURS!!! I am one of those experts.

My name is Paul Levine, and I am the Managing Member of LS Property Partners LLC and I make those decisions too. You can call me at (818) 298 – 4000 after 10 AM Pacific Time seven days a week. Or you can write to me at [email protected] and I will make every effort to get back to you in a timely manner. Also, our website, “www.lspropertypartnersllc.com will give you more information and, hopefully, answer some of your questions.

Investing in real estate is a marathon, not a sprint.Investing in real estate is a marathon, not a sprint.Your next 7 ye...
01/03/2024

Investing in real estate is a marathon, not a sprint.

Investing in real estate is a marathon, not a sprint.
Your next 7 years could look like this👇

// Year 1:
While the first year may not be that exciting, it’s definitely an accomplishment to invest your first $50,000. You should then start earning a 4% - 6% annual cash return.

// Year 2:
In the early Spring, you receive your first Schedule K-1, which is the tax document that shows your income and losses from your first investment.

The same year you invest another $50k.

// Year 3:
Now you get 2 Schedule K-1s showing paper losses you can claim.

The same year you make another $50K investment. Congrats!

// Year 4:
You're now collecting quarterly distributions on 3 deals!

Sometimes, the cash flow from properties can be less in the beginning, but as more value is created, distributions can increase more and more. The property in Year 1 is now performing really well!

// Year 5:
The property from Year 1 investment has finished renovations and is sold. You receive your original investment of $50K back plus another $40K from sale profits.

You're in a good spot financially, so you reinvest that $90k into another deal. Plus you wanted to make a new investment anyway, so you invest another $50K into a syndication.

// Year 6:
You’re now collecting cash flow on 4 deals!

The market is in a great spot. The property from Year 2 sells. You reinvest the profits again and invest an additional $100K into another syndication.

// Year 7:
You’re currently invested in 4 deals!

Now the property from Year 3 is done with the business plan and sells.

See how powerful this strategy can be?

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You see that most syndications last between 5 and 7 years. You haven’t had to do any of the heavy lifting and you’re able to claim tax write offs along the way.

👉 It's similar to building your own real estate conveyor belt!

I found this article on LinkedIn this morning, October 17, 2023, and I sort of laughed when I read it. I cannot say that I agree with anything specifically, but I applaud the concept that the author is trying to get across.

WHEN IS THE RIGHT TIME TO BUY REAL ESTATE?Everyone says that now isn’t the time to buy real estate.  For the residential...
01/02/2024

WHEN IS THE RIGHT TIME TO BUY REAL ESTATE?

Everyone says that now isn’t the time to buy real estate. For the residential purchaser they cannot afford the payments because the prices are still high, and the interest rates have yet to come down so they cannot afford the payments. And they aren’t wrong, but they may not be right either. And for the investor, the commercial market is made up of professionals, real estate professionals, who know what’s happening, but they cannot do anything about it yet. The prices have remained high, and the interest rates are as high for them as for the residential buyers, but they have something that the residential buyers do not have…

The residential buyer is the novice in the group and the younger or unseasoned buyer is buying on instinct. They do not have the ability to make the payments now because of the prices and the interest rates but they feel, because they are somewhat younger, that their plight in life will get better with better jobs and with “seasoning”. But they also feel that the prices will continue to go up and, if they do not buy now or soon, that they will never be able to afford a home of their own. The seasoned real estate buyer, who has bought before and feels that he or she knows what to do may be being priced right out of the market at the moment, but they do not have the hope that the novice has.

BUT the commercial buyer has something that neither of the residential buyers do and that is reserves!!! Where the residential buyer buys on emotion, the commercial buyer buys on NUMBERS. And the commercial buyer also has reserves and that’s the essential ability to be able to ride out the high mortgage payments because of the high prices and the high interest rates. That’s where guys like me come onto the scene. My 50 years’ experience as a Certified Public Accountant and my years dealing in real estate both as a CPA and a Realtor don’t look at emotion. I care about the bottom line!!! As I have said so many times, either a deal pencils out or it doesn’t. The numbers don’t lie unless you want them to!!!

I have been married to two Chinese ladies in my life and I know what ESL means (English as a Second Language). Their first language was Mandarin. My first language was NUMBERS, and my second language was ENGLISH!!!

My name is Paul Levine, and you can call me at (818) 298 – 4000 after 10 AM Pacific Time Monday through Friday, and yes, even on the weekends. Or you can send an email to me at “[email protected]” and I will always try to answer you in a timely manner. I am the Managing Member of LS PROPERTY PARTNERS LLC and, with my partner, Fred Sams, we can help you make it through the complicated issue of Income Taxes like no one else can and, with our years of experience, we can help you make the right decision!!! We can help you defer tens of thousands of dollars in income taxes that will drastically change your cash flow allowing you to qualify for a loan, pick up the adjoining piece of property for future expansion, do some major refurbishing of the purchased property and even take a wonderful, romantic trip with the one you love!!!!!

A FUNNY THING HAPPENED TO ME THE OTHER DAY!!!First, I have to give you a little background.  I am a 77-year-old Jewish G...
12/29/2023

A FUNNY THING HAPPENED TO ME THE OTHER DAY!!!

First, I have to give you a little background. I am a 77-year-old Jewish Gentleman, and I was in a bad marriage and separated from my wife of 10 years on August 31, 2023. My favorite cousin, as we were growing up, lived 20 minutes from where I was living. I needed a place to stay so I ended up staying with my now 76-year-old cousin. I had major back surgery on August 22, 2022, and I am still dealing with pain and weakness and discomfort. I use a walker from time to time as an aid in walking.

So, my cousin and I were in her house, and I was in the living room and my cousin was in the kitchen. I left my walker in the kitchen as I went in there to pick up my full dinner plate and left the walker there as my hands, we both carrying something. My cousin asked me if “I wanted my wheels”. Now, back in the day, when we were all a lot younger, wanting my wheels meant driving my car. But, now in my mid-70s, it means do I want my walker.

I realized what she said and the different meaning for us now, and I pointed that out to her, and we both had a good laugh. As we get older and as we experience more things in business and in life and in love, your perspective changes. We look at instances like this and it’s somewhat funny and somewhat sad, but life at its different stages holds different things for us. I may be 77 but I started a new business with my partner, Fred Sams, about 18 months ago and both of us work hard to build our Empire. Most people my age are either retired or planning for retirement. I still have the mind of an astute 35- or 40-year-old but with life and business experience that they cannot have. And I have the heart and soul of an 18- or 21-year-old but with passion they will NEVER know!!!

And all of this gives me the energy of a teenager. My partner and I met about 18 months ago and, soon after, he gave me the nickname “SPARKY”, and I love it!!! There are many seniors who do not feel like they have a purpose in life anymore and I feel so sad for them. I still look for challenging situations to use the tools and experience of over 60 years in business as a professional. I was a practicing Certified Public Accountant for over 50 years. I was a University Professor for 6 ½ years. And I have been a Commercial Realtor since about 2017.

My name is Paul Levine, and I am a Commercial Realtor, an Income Tax Advisor, a Real Estate Advisor, a Business Advisor and so much more. After over 50 years’ experience as a Certified Public Accountant, 6 ½ years as a University Professor and going on 7 years as a Commercial Realtor, I have earned the right to say that I have the right experience. You can reach me at (818) 298 – 4000 after 10 AM Pacific Time 7 days a week. You can also send an email to me at “[email protected]” and I will try to get back to you in a timely manner. I am usually pretty good at that!!! Have a wonderful and safe holiday season.

A GREAT STORY FROM THE 1980s…AND THEY SAID BEING AN ACCOUNTANT WAS BORING!!!PART III OF III…     THE END...I completed m...
12/28/2023

A GREAT STORY FROM THE 1980s…

AND THEY SAID BEING AN ACCOUNTANT WAS BORING!!!

PART III OF III… THE END...

I completed my accounting work and the balance sheet and discovered, not to my surprise, that the company was insolvent and did not have the money to fill the orders that had come in with payments. I then submitted my letter of resignation and was done with the company.

Suffice it to say that the CFTC did a full investigation and the owners ended up in jail. They did post bail and one of the partners became “friendly” with another inmate in jail, invited him to his home, not a good idea, and the other inmate ended up “borrowing” my client’s car without asking. A knife fight ensued, and my client was hurt and subsequently died from his wounds. I got out of this free and clear as I signed no financial statements or tax returns since I hired a local CPA firm to do all of that fun work and assume the liability.

There are a number of lessons to be learned from this experience. First, do not sign anything if you suspect that there is anything wrong! Second, stand up to governmental agencies like the CFTC because we all have rights and we should be aware of them and exercise them. This odyssey lasted eight months, so I got to see my parents eight times, had my Mother’s fine cooking each time I was in Florida and flew first class for the first time in my life. It was nice!!! But there is an expression that I grew up with and I have a sweatshirt with an appropriate saying on it. “I may be old (I am currently 77 years old) but NEVER underestimate a graduate of CCNY”. CCNY stands for the City College of New York. It cost me $23 the first semester to go there, and all 2,400 day session students got a “free ride”. We were all pretty smart! The competition in the classrooms was so thick that you could cut it with a knife, but I came out on top. I love the competition!!! So, four gentlemen with badges from the CFTC did not scare me. That was a normal day in school!!!

The company finally declared bankruptcy and stopped paying me their rent and there were no accounting fees to be had anymore. I made it through alright, but the other brother did end up spending time as a guest of the State of Florida in one of their jails and I never heard from him again. So, you never know what is going to happen in any situation and you have to be prepared for anything at any time. My New York background and my 4 years at CCNY prepared me for just about anything. So, being a New York Jewish CPA did give me an advantage over just about all of my competition and it still does. You can take the boy, now 74, out of New York to Los Angeles but you will NEVER take New York out of the boy.

My name is Paul Levine, and I am a Commercial Realtor, a Real Estate Advisor and an Income Tax Advisor. I was a Practicing Certified Public Accountant for over 50 years, but I am now retired from accounting. But I still take Income Tax continuing education classes given for CPAs, not realtors, to keep up on the income tax laws because it’s also my job to work with your CPA and save you income taxes. You can call me at (818) 298 – 4000 after 10 AM Pacific Time Monday through Friday and on the weekends if necessary. You can also send an email to me at [email protected] and I will always try to get back to you in a timely manner.

A GREAT STORY FROM THE 1980s…AND THEY SAID BEING AN ACCOUNTANT WAS BORING!!!PART II OF IV…So, the money and the orders s...
12/27/2023

A GREAT STORY FROM THE 1980s…

AND THEY SAID BEING AN ACCOUNTANT WAS BORING!!!

PART II OF IV…

So, the money and the orders started rolling in faster than you could count it. But, the management of the company, two brothers with sorted backgrounds and no business sense, did not do the right thing. You see, when you get the money before you fill the orders you should segregate the money for the product and you can spend the “profits” on other things like office space, furnishings, cars, etc. But that’s not what the company did! They spent money, minute by minute, on everything that they wanted without planning ahead and keeping enough money in reserves to purchase the product that the customers already paid for.

When I was in Ft. Lauderdale my one week a month, I would do normal accounting and started to accumulate the amount of the liability owed to the customers based on the deposits that they sent to the company for their merchandise to the assets that the company had to purchase the merchandise that “belonged” to the customers. This process was normal in preparing a balance sheet for the company as of a certain date, the year end. What I was finding was definitely disturbing, but I am putting the cart before the horse.

The company was selling the gold at spot, as I mentioned before. But the company was also buying the gold at spot which leaves no room for any profits. The changes in the gold prices from day to day did not change enough for the company to make any money on the buying and selling of the gold. Plus, that was not in their business plan because, to be brutally honest, they were not smart enough to figure that out. One day one of the owners went to a brokerage house to trade gold and, at first, he did well out of sheer luck. But then, as all things do, this thing started to even out and he started to lose money. He did not just lose money, in a period of about 4 hours he lost in excess of $250,000 plus commissions over what he made the day before!!!

So, the company was not making any profits on the purchase and sale of the gold, it was spending extravagantly on office space and furnishings and cars and personal items, and the money was starting to slow down because the company was getting late on their deliveries.

Now, we have all heard the expression, Ponzi scheme and this scenario is the classic Ponzi scheme. As the money started to slow down the company did not have the resources to purchase more gold to fill the orders that came in with the money for the product that the company received but spent on other things. I purposely made that a long sentence.

One day when I was in Ft. Lauderdale four gentlemen from the CFTC, the Commodities Future Trading Commission, a part of the US government and the SEC, came to visit the company and the owners and management was not there, I was there alone with the general staff. They asked me some questions and I gave them the standard answers of “I don’t know”, “You will have to ask the owners”, and the like. They wanted to make copies of the books and records and I said that they could not do that without a warrant. I did give them permission to look at the registers and, after looking at the books, they all went back to their car and started to quickly write down the information they had memorized. When I saw this I casually walked over to their car, knocked on the window and told them that they could not come back in. I got no slack from them.

A GREAT STORY FROM THE 1980s…AND THEY SAID BEING AN ACCOUNTANT WAS BORING!!!PART I OF IV OR MAYBE V…Back in the early to...
12/26/2023

A GREAT STORY FROM THE 1980s…

AND THEY SAID BEING AN ACCOUNTANT WAS BORING!!!

PART I OF IV OR MAYBE V…

Back in the early to mid-1980s I was practicing accounting and my office was on the 27th floor of the twin towers in Century City, Los Angeles, California. The two buildings were triangular in shape and my office was at the apex of one of the triangles. I had an amazing view from my office of the Pacific Ocean, a couple of airports, a number of beautiful green golf courses and lots of Los Angeles. I had 7 people working for me and I was managing an accounting practice, but I was not doing what I loved to do, practicing accounting!

So, I decided to change my operation and let all of my staff go, sub lease my office and get a smaller office in another building in the same complex and have only one employee, an assistant who could do everything that I could want of her as my right-hand gal! So, I put the wheels in motion and found a sub lessee for my office for a very good rental price and made a nice profit from that sub lease. I sub leased my office space to the International Gold Bullion Exchange, a company out of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida who sold gold bars and gold coins. As a good businessman, beside leasing my office space to them, I also became their independent Certified Public Accountant.

This client came with a few wonderful benefits for me. First, I would go to Ft. Lauderdale one week a month to do accounting work and consulting. The client gave me first class airplane tickets for my journey which was greatly appreciated. I really enjoyed those airplane rides. Second, out of coincidence, my parents lived in Ft. Lauderdale, so I was able to visit them one week a month and have some of my Mother’s wonderful cooking!!! Also, just spending time with them was a treat. The client put me up in a nice hotel and we would do dinner and drinks on the evenings that I did not spend with my parents.

Now that I set the table for you, we can get to the business portion of the story. The business of the client was to sell gold bars and Krugerrands and they sold them at “spot”. Spot is the price of gold as quoted by the market every day. The company got themselves into a position of advertising in the Wall Street Journal. Advertising in the Wall Street Journal means instant success because to be allowed to advertise in the WSJ you have to be vetted by the newspaper and that is analogist to receiving a seal of approval. So, the company’s business went sky high once they started advertising in the Wall Street Journal. I am aware that I mentioned the name of the newspaper a number of times, but it is really a big deal to accomplish what this company accomplished!

ALL I WANT TO DO IS HELP!!!PART II OF II...     THE END...So, I said to her, tell me about it.  And he started talking a...
12/22/2023

ALL I WANT TO DO IS HELP!!!

PART II OF II... THE END...

So, I said to her, tell me about it. And he started talking and I just said yes, uh ha, and I parroted a few things that she said. She talked for exactly one hour, I was watching the clock behind her. At the end of the hour she said, “you’re right, I shouldn’t redo the kitchen”. I didn’t say one word on either side of the argument. She talked it out and came to the decision herself. That also means that she owned her decision. I didn’t tell her what to do and she really bought into her decision with absolutely no regrets. So, she would not renege and redo the kitchen anyway.

This is how I help my clients in a different way than just about all of the professionals out there. That includes accountants, lawyers, realtors, and just about every other professional rendering a service to various clients. Very few professionals take the time or make the effort to really satisfy the client’s needs. Most professionals want to give advice to the clients and listen to themselves talk. I’m not that way.

And, you also have to remember that I was a University Professor for 6 ½ years here in California. So, I not only listen but I know how to explain things to you so that they are clear and understood.

I have comments from two people, one being a very long-term accounting client who I helped purchase his first rental property and second being someone who reads my Facebook articles and appreciates how I write them.

“Wow! Paul Levine has been so wonderful to work with over the years, and for the purchase of our first rental property he was no different. He educated us and walked us through so many different terms, forms, and procedures. Paul reassured us in each step of the buying process by answering our basic and complex questions. Paul went to bat for us and searched out answers to questions if he didn’t know them and coached us how to ask questions through the process as well. Thank you, Paul!”

“You are always very interesting, and you make complicated stuff easier to understand always great to hear from you and good luck with the back.” (I will be having back surgery in August)

So, in summary, I like my clients. As a CPA, if I did not become friends with a client by the end of doing their second income tax return, I would fire them. Yes, I like to make money, but I have to like my clients for the effort that I put out for them. I will do the same for you and that’s a PROMISE!!!

My name is Paul Levine, and I am a Commercial Realtor, a Real Estate Advisor and I was a Practicing Certified Public Accountant for over 50 years, but I am now retired from accounting. But I still take Income Tax continuing education classes given for CPAs, not realtors, to keep up on the income tax laws because it’s also my job to work with your CPA and save you income taxes. You can call me at (818) 298 – 4000 after 10 AM Pacific Time Monday through Friday and on the weekends if necessary. You can also send an email to me at [email protected] and I will always try to get back to you in a timely manner.

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San Diego, CA
92120

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